Life, 1902-10-09 · page 2 of 22
Life — October 9, 1902 — page 2: what you’re looking at
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# Analysis of Life Magazine Page This page is **primarily advertising**, not satirical content. It contains four commercial advertisements: 1. **Van Norden Trust Company** (top left) — lists the company's directorate of prominent businessmen 2. **The Oldsmobile** (top right) — automobile advertisement featuring an early motorcar, priced at $650 3. **The Prudential Insurance Company** (bottom left) — endowment insurance policy with poetic tagline about harvests and thrift 4. **Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters** (bottom right) — imported medicinal tonic from Trinidad, marketed as a stomach corrective The Prudential ad is the only one with quasi-artistic content: a moonlit seascape accompanying insurance messaging about economic security for families. No political satire or caricature appears on this page.
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VAN NORDEN TRUST COMPANY 751 FIFTH AVENUE.NEAR 58" STREET NEW YORK Capital and Surplus, $2.000.000 No. 11 A Directorate composed of men of high standing and wide experience insures safe and able management. At- tention is therefore called to the following list: DIRECTORS WARNER VAN NORDEN New York WARNER M, VAN NORE President WILLIAM FP. HAVEMEYER New York JOHN IL, FLAGLER New York JAMES TALCOTT Dry Goods Commission Merchant Hon. CORNELIUS N. BLISS Ex-Secretary of the Intertor, U. 8, JOUN CLAFLIN President The II. B. Clafin Company DUMONT CLARKE President American Exchange National Bank HENRY F. SHOEMAKE Chairman Executive Committee Clacinnat, Hamilton & Dayton Raliroad BENJAMIN PERKINS Bx-President Continental National Bank RICHARD L, EDWARDS. President National Bank of North America JOHN Il. WASHBURN President Home Insurance Company JONATITAN B, CURREY President Metropolitan Savings Bank THOMAS P. FOWLER President New York, Ontario & Western Rattroad Company ERNST THALMANN Ladenbarg, Thalmann & Company CHARLES W. MORSE New York MAHLON D, THATCHER President First National Bank of Pueblo, Col. HENRY II, COOK ew York HENRY T. BRONSON Vice-President American Savings Bank ARTHUR A. FOWLER A. A, Fowler & Company THE | THE OLDSMOBILE Meets every expectation Built to ran and does it. All kinds of roads, Ail sorts of weather are allke to this ploneer of practical motor vehicles, Nuns everywhere and Is the best thing on wheeis, Price $650 at Factory Washington, Rarru Tewpee® & AUSTRIAN Co, 2d Wabash Av.. Chicago. OLDS GasoLing Exons Works, “Omaha, OLDSMOBILECO..1124 Conn’cut Av , ‘Waahington, D. C QUAKER CITY AUTOMOBILE Co 138 N, Broad St.. Philadelphia, Pa. H._B. Siiarteex & Sox, 239 Columbus Av., Boston, Mass. OLpswostt.8 Co 411 Euclid Day AUTOMOBILE Co., At Louls and Kansas City, Mo, Cleveland, Onto, Nothing to watch but the road AGENTS Gronaoe Haynan. 1455 Callfornta St., CLARK & HAWRINS, 903 Texns Av., Houston, Texas. Ilystor Bros. i Denver, Colo. & Co., St. Minneapolis, Minn. 2 Co 218 LDSMOBILE Co., 728 National Av.. Milwankee, Wis. Jas. BL SeaGRR, Tuscan, Artz ABBOTT CYCLE LO, St., New Orleans, La, $5 80, Forayth St., Atlanta, Ga, SoTCLIvrE & C 411 Main St, Loutsville, Ky. Write Department J for Tituatrated Book. fully descriptive of this wonderful Motor Vehicle. OLDS MOTOR WORKS, Detroit, Mich., U. S. A. mAs THE Sona [races ; {STRENGTH OF [> GIBRALTAR “The crimson moon, uprising from the sea, With large delight, foretells the harvest near.”” With What Delight Would. You View the Harvest of Your Thrift and Economy, Upon the Maturity of an Endowment Policy in The Prudential Premiams—Payable for terms selected, such as 10, 15 or 20 years, Dividends—Payable Annually, every Five Years, o at the end of Ten, Fifteen or Twenty Years. Benefits—Payable to Yourself, if you live, or to your Family, if you do not survive. Settlement—Immediately upon Maturity, for Yourself. for Your Family. . BUFFALO 190! The Prudential Insurance Co. PARIS 1867 OF AMERICA. 1878 1900 JOHN P, DRYDEN, President, Home Office, NEWARK; N. J. By Royal Warrant Purveyors to His Majesty the German Emperor and GOLD MEDALS — =f the King of Prussia. LONDON 1862 PHILADELPHIA 1876 VIENNA 1873 CHICAGO 1893 LONDON 1886 Unrivalled appetizing tonicand stomach corrective. Recommended by physicians. Does not contain Angostura bark or other powerful or harmful drugs, such as are often found in domestic substitutes and imitations. Manufactured only by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons, Trinidad, B. W. I. J. W. WUPPERMANN, Sole Agent, NEW YORK, N. Y. comicbooks.com